Improvement in drag-rake handles



H. SMITH & W. GALBRAITH.

DRACFRAKE HANDLE, No. 171,325. Patented Dec. 21,1875.

fizaezzz w vt U ITED STATES HUGH SMITH AND WALTER GALBRAITH, OF PASSUMPSIO, VERMONT.

IMPROVEMENT IN DRAG-RAKE HANDLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 171,325, dated December21, 1875; application filed April 5, 1875.

To all whom it may concern: 7 Be it' known that we, HUGH SMITH andWALTER GALBRAITH, 0f Passumpsic, State of Vermont, have in vented anImproved Drag- Rake Handle, of which the following is a specification:

This improved drag-rake handle isso constructed that it may be adjustedto the shortest or the tallest man, and enables him to choose anyposition he may like in raking.

This is accomplished without weakening the irons which join the handleto the head or any other essential part. i

The curved limbsr and s, Fig. l, are first turned and bent, then firmlyfastened together at c with a rivet or ferrule, the ends of the limbsbeing scarfed so as to keep them in place. The two limbs are held firmlyin place by .a malleable-iron clamp, Fig. 5. This clamp is composed oftwo parts, I) b and u a, each of which is represented by Figs. 5 and 7,b 1) applying on the top and u a from beneath. The two parts are thendrawn together by a bolt passing through both at d. Thus, the limbs rand s are firmly grasped by the double clamps b u and b a. Upon thisclamp, by the same bolt g, Fig. 4, which holds the clamp in place, isfastened the malleableiron handle represented by Fig. 6. This may beapplied so as Thus the adjustment is partially provided for by applyingthe movable handle, Fig.6, at ei- .ther of the planes,"p or 0, whichmeet at an angle of about forty-five degrees. The adj ustment is furtherregulated by moving the clamp, Fig. 5, up and down the limbs, which maybe done by simply loosening the nut of the bolt d,- and, wherever it isplaced, when the nut is tightened, the handle is as firm as though itwere a permanent fixture. The limbs, being only seven-eighths of an inchin diameter, readily give enough one way and the other to allow theclamp to slide back and forth for several inches.

We claim as our invention and desire to secure by Letters Pa'ten't- Theadjustable clamp and handle, in combination with the limbs r s of therake, asand' for the purposes set forth.

HUGH SMITH. WALTER GALBRAITH. Witnesses:

ISRAEL PUlNAM DANA, LoUIs FOLLETT-

